Hi Kerohl, you are doin quite well for the begining. Two ideas if you want to consider about, first avoid busy backgrounds especially on the navigation menu, and second try to make the dimensions of all the bars inculuding select and unselect in accordance with the other bars. That means if I were you I would make the select highlight a little bit short in the height to make it fit with the tab bar. I am sure that you will find the best way while you make more themes. To keep an eye with what Doc showed you will be very helpful I think.

mohammed_intekhab

Dec 22 2006, 05:41 AM

Hy kerohl.it nice to see your thread.

good start

kerohl

Dec 22 2006, 06:16 AM

QUOTE(vswindtalker @ Dec 22 2006, 08:23 PM)

Hi Kerohl, you are doin quite well for the begining. Two ideas if you want to consider about, first avoid busy backgrounds especially on the navigation menu, and second try to make the dimensions of all the bars inculuding select and unselect in accordance with the other bars. That means if I were you I would make the select highlight a little bit short in the height to make it fit with the tab bar. I am sure that you will find the best way while you make more themes. To keep an eye with what Doc showed you will be very helpful I think. [right][snapback]266733[/snapback][/right]

thnks for the tips.. i appreciate them, but i just had a hard time understanding it.. hehe.. well if u don't mind can you explain it one more time? thnks... and what does busy background mean? and the bars select and unselect? really i appreciate it and i want to understand it all so i could make my themes more better..

You've put the title border directly under the selection icons and when you then make the tab highlight in its default size it overlaps the border.

I would have either made the selected tab smaller, like the red one I added to the pic, or I would have moved the title border below the title text (Answered) as the arrow suggests.

A busy background is where there's lots happening and/or a lot of different colors. The backgrounds usually look better this way, but that's not what makes a great theme. A great theme is where you at no point feel distracted or disturbed by the elements or backgrounds of the theme.

I can add that the borders of the highlights and tabs are a bit jagged. And I think you've taken the easy road to the highlights.. My guess is that you started with the desktop highlight, then resized it to the size of the highlights. The result of that never looks good and that's why you have thick side borders (disturbing the text) and thin top/bottom borders on the highlights. Shortcuts can be good, but this not one of those times.

Three themers that always produce high quality themes with great functionality are Jasnasto, mrklan and Patrick_Lippe. Check their threads and you'll know how a great theme should look like. And take time to look at the technical aspects of their theming, how they use the backgrounds and colors to make it functional.

With all this in mind, I don't think the theme is a disaster, it just needs some work. Keep at it!

chunkyvic

Dec 22 2006, 08:55 PM

I agree about the functionality of the themes however your City Cat theme has some nice stand out touches. Great effort for a newbie. One to watch I think.

Vic

kerohl

Dec 23 2006, 04:37 AM

ok.. thnks a lot for these..

thomas_sweden

Dec 23 2006, 06:46 AM

great theme kerohl

jasnasto

Dec 23 2006, 07:22 AM

I can only agree with all that vs and doc said... just keep on working, you got some very good ideas, kerohl...

QUOTE(dr_megabyte @ Dec 22 2006, 08:23 PM)

Three themers that always produce high quality themes with great functionality are Jasnasto, mrklan and Patrick_Lippe. Check their threads and you'll know how a great theme should look like. And take time to look at the technical aspects of their theming, how they use the backgrounds and colors to make it functional.[right][snapback]266845[/snapback][/right]

Thanx for mentioning me, doc... I can only add that your thread has to be checked , too...

kerohl

Dec 23 2006, 08:53 AM

hey doc, how bout this one? is it any better?

kerohl

Dec 25 2006, 08:20 PM

Merry Christmas people!

zjurina

Dec 26 2006, 02:44 AM

hi, kerohl

wish you have a Merry Christmas

also, sorry to be a little late over here...

wnt to mention it s a nice start in theming you have

got already several highly quality themers for adwisers!

listen to them and you ll not miss a success

Prefer the second Kitty for now.

kerohl

Dec 26 2006, 02:46 AM

QUOTE(zjurina @ Dec 26 2006, 05:44 PM)

hi, kerohl

wish you have a Merry Christmas

also, sorry to be a little late over here...

wnt to mention it s a nice start in theming you have

got already several highly quality themers for adwisers!

listen to them and you ll not miss a success

Prefer the second Kitty for now.[right][snapback]267958[/snapback][/right]

thnks..

kerohl

Dec 26 2006, 10:21 AM

how bout this one?

Destined Theme by Kerohl

thomas_sweden

Dec 26 2006, 10:56 AM

I don't really like those outlines of the softs and status and that thing on the highlights isn't very good looking... and maybe the titles is a bit short... but a great theme, keep them comming

kerohl

Dec 26 2006, 07:49 PM

good to hear from u thomas.. ok i'll edit those stuffs..

shoutout

Dec 26 2006, 07:52 PM

nice theme kerohl

kerohl

Dec 26 2006, 10:25 PM

Edited Version..

thomas_sweden

Dec 27 2006, 02:28 AM

looks better, but maybe you could have choosen another outline instead of that you used before... sorry if I only complain, but I really like your theme

dr_megabyte

Dec 27 2006, 04:51 AM

I don't agree with Thomas about your outline.. That's nothing wrong to use and I think it's better to concentrate on what you can improve instead of making you adjust and change everything to suit my personal taste.. Agree about the titles, though. They're a bit on the short side.

I think you need something bordering the soft/status as the transition to the background gets too abrupt without as it is right now.. Imo, it actually looked better with the outline..

The selected tabs and titles could also use some depth. Try a few different drop shadows, and less is often more when using drop shadow. You don't need much to change the look totally.

I think your unselected and selected tabs don't go together. If you assign unselected tabs I think it looks better if you make the selected the same but with some small difference (to make it stand out as selected of course) to it.

Also plenty of examples of this in the elite-themers threads.

What I would have done for your latest theme is this. I suppose you've used a big wallpaper as base for your backgrounds. If you have, then I would use these parts for the menu backgrounds:

Or I would use these parts and overlay and/or blend with the standby background. If you select parts from the image with the freehand selection tool and set the feather extremely high and play with the opacity of the different layers you can get blending virtually seamless.

I hope you understand what I mean..

About your previous theme and the second version. I think brightening of the background is the last resort of a desperate mind to make a disfunctional theme functional. It's so much better to have all this in mind when designing your backgrounds instead of making these changes after it's all done.

If you start out thinking that you will make the standby your primary background and the others less busy versions or hints of it I think you're off to a better start with each theme.

Keep it up! But don't rush it, it takes time, especially at this stage! You'll be a champ before you know it!

All of them are amazing Kerhol!!!! Well done youve improved alot since your first theme

kerohl

Jan 11 2007, 04:58 AM

really?? thnks thom and bj.. that really uplifts me.. of course i got inspirations from other m9 themers.. and i also fantasize zjurina's themes.. wonderful..

storm016

Jan 15 2007, 04:28 PM

good looking themes kerohl ..... someone told me oncve ... textures like these ddoesn't look good in the phone I need you to tell me if it is true or not

kerohl

Jan 25 2007, 04:22 AM

QUOTE(storm016 @ Jan 16 2007, 07:28 AM)

good looking themes kerohl ..... someone told me oncve ... textures like these ddoesn't look good in the phone I need you to tell me if it is true or not [right][snapback]274638[/snapback][/right]

what textures?

storm016

Jan 27 2007, 06:27 PM

QUOTE(kerohl @ Jan 25 2007, 02:22 PM)

QUOTE(storm016 @ Jan 16 2007, 07:28 AM)

good looking themes kerohl ..... someone told me oncve ... textures like these ddoesn't look good in the phone I need you to tell me if it is true or not [right][snapback]274638[/snapback][/right]

what textures?[right][snapback]278103[/snapback][/right]

oh .. I mean those on DestinyV2 theme bars

kerohl

Jan 27 2007, 07:12 PM

oh... i see.. as far as remember, i looks just fine but i myself feels that something is missing when i would look at it..

dina_

Jan 29 2007, 04:35 AM

Very nice themes and hope you have more to com!!!

jasnasto

Jan 29 2007, 04:56 AM

Serenade looks very nice, kerohl... Some really nice details, but the theme looks a bit busy for my taste ... love the inputs, although the butterflies in the input 1 could make some problems when you write SMS...

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